William Makepeace Thackeray - Woman Quotes

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He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not infrequently levied in love.

William Makepeace Thackeray
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang,
Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin
That never has known the barber's shear,
All your wish is woman to win,
This is the way that boys begin.
Wait till you come to Forty Year.

William Makepeace Thackeray
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

William Makepeace Thackeray
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

William Makepeace Thackeray
There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

William Makepeace Thackeray
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

William Makepeace Thackeray